Output value control method and transmission apparatus

• US 8,934,778 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2012
• Issued: 01/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Futami, Yusho, Watanabe, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Washburn, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): WOLDEKIDAN, HIBRET ASNAKE
• Application Number:
  US13/682,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20130322878A1
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 398/135, 398/136, 398/137, 398/138, 398/139, 398/38, 398/196, 398/197, 398/93, 398/94, 398/95, 398/120
• US Class Current: 398/135
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/0775 Performance monitoring and measurement of transmission parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/07955 Monitoring or measuring power
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/564 Power control

Abstract

The object of the present invention is to reliably prevent deterioration and failure of reception relevant parts in a transmission apparatus on a reception side without using an attenuator. An output value control method that controls an output value of output information transmitted from each of transmission apparatuses, in which a transmission apparatus transmits the output information having a minimum output value as the output value to the other transmission apparatus, and when the output information does not reach the other transmission apparatus, the transmission apparatus repeats transmission of the output information after increasing the own output value by adding a predetermined value to a previous output value, and then the other transmission apparatus that has received the output information calculates the output value of the transmission apparatus, and notifies the calculated output value of the transmission apparatus as an appropriate output value to the transmission apparatus.

Claims

1. An output value control method for controlling an output value of output information transmitted from each of transmission apparatuses including a first transmission apparatus and a second transmission apparatus between which the output information is transmitted and received by the transmission apparatuses, comprising the steps of;

the first transmission apparatus transmitting the output information having a minimum output value as the output value to the second transmission apparatus which is different from the first transmission apparatus as well as notifies the minimum output value as an own output value to the second transmission apparatus,

the first transmission apparatus repeating a transmission of the output information and a notification of the own output value at the time of the transmission after increasing the own output value by adding a predetermined value to a previous output value when the output information does not reach the second transmission apparatus,

the second transmission apparatus receiving the output information calculating the output value of the first transmission apparatus on the basis of the notified output value, and notifying the calculated output value of the first transmission apparatus as an appropriate output value to the first transmission apparatus, and

the first transmission apparatus transmitting and receiving information to and from the second transmission apparatus with the notified appropriate output value.

2. The output value control method as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the second transmission apparatus calculates a maximum output upper limit value which is a maximum output value allowed to be outputted by the first transmission apparatus on the basis of the calculated appropriate output value,

the second transmission apparatus notifying the calculated maximum output upper limit value to the first transmission apparatus.

3. The output value control method as set forth in claim 2, wherein

when the second transmission apparatus detects that a loss of a transmission line is larger than or equal to a predetermined degree,

the second transmission apparatus sets the own output value to the maximum output upper limit value, and then instructs the first transmission apparatus to set the output value in the first transmission apparatus to the maximum output upper limit value in the first transmission apparatus.

4. The output value control method as set forth in claim 3, wherein

after the first transmission apparatus sets the own output value to the maximum output upper limit value, the first transmission apparatus gradually decreases the output value until a reception value in the second transmission apparatus becomes a reception recommendation input value which is an appropriate reception value of the output information while the first transmission apparatus notifies the own output value to the second transmission apparatus, and

when the reception value in the second transmission apparatus becomes the reception recommendation input value, the second transmission apparatus notifies the notified output value as the output value of the first transmission apparatus to the first transmission apparatus.

5. The output value control method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the output information and each of the notifications are transmitted and received through a transmission line.

6. The output value control method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the transmission line is constituted by an optical cable.

7. The output value control method as set forth in claim 5, wherein

the transmission line includes a first transmission line through which main signals are transmitted and received, and a second transmission line which is different from the first transmission line, and

the notifications being transmitted and received through the second transmission line.

8. The output value control method as set forth in claim 7, wherein the first transmission line is constituted by an optical cable.

9. A transmission apparatus that transmits and receives information, comprising:

a transmission unit that transmits the information to an other transmission apparatus, a reception unit that receives the information from the other transmission apparatus, and

an output value setting unit that sets an output value in the transmission unit, and notifies the output value to the other transmission apparatus, and wherein the output value setting unit sets the output value in the transmission unit to a minimum output value, and notifies the minimum output value through the transmission unit to the other transmission apparatus which is a transmission destination of the output information, the output value setting unit increasing the output value of the transmission unit by adding a predetermined value to a previous output value, and repeating a transmission of the output information and a notification of an own output value at the time of the transmission, when the output information does not reach the other transmission apparatus, the output value setting unit calculating an output value of the transmission apparatus in an originating source of the output information on the basis of the notified output value, and notifying the calculated output value of the originating transmission apparatus as an appropriate output value to the transmission apparatus in the originating source of the output information, when the output information from the other transmission apparatus is received in the reception unit, and the output value setting unit setting the notified appropriate output value as the output value of the transmission unit, when the appropriate output value is notified to the originating transmission apparatus.

10. The transmission apparatus as set forth in claim 9, wherein

the output value setting unit calculates on the basis of the calculated appropriate output value a maximum output upper limit value which is a maximum output value allowed to be outputted by the transmission apparatus in the originating source of the output information,

the output value setting unit notifying the calculated maximum output upper limit value to the originating transmission apparatus.

11. The transmission apparatus as set forth in claim 10, further comprising a reception level monitoring unit that measures a reception value of the received information, wherein

the output value setting unit sets the output value of the transmission unit to the maximum output upper limit value, and then instructs the other transmission apparatus to set the output value in the other transmission apparatus to the maximum output upper limit value in the other transmission apparatus, when the reception level monitoring unit detects that a loss of the transmission line is larger than or equal to a predetermined degree.

12. The transmission apparatus as set forth in claim 11, wherein

the output value setting unit gradually decreases the output value of the transmission unit while notifying the output value of the transmission unit to the other transmission apparatus until the output value becomes a reception recommendation input value which is an appropriate reception value of the output information in the other transmission apparatus, after setting the output value of the transmission unit to the maximum output upper limit value,

the output value setting unit notifying the notified output value as the output value of the transmission apparatus in the originating source of the output information to the originating transmission apparatus, when the reception level monitoring unit detects that the reception value of the output information transmitted from the other transmission apparatus becomes the reception recommendation input value.